What jumps out at me is the urgency of pushing this thing forward during March 2004. What was going on at this time? Oh yeah, a presidential election.

A selection, since I have more than one song for some of the bands:

In Transit - Albert Hammond Jr.

Eyes - Apollo Sunshine

I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys

Holla! - Baha Men

Pump It - Black Eyed Peas

Banquet - Bloc Party

She's So Modern - The Boomtown Rats

Jique - Brazilian Girls

The Right Profile - The Clash

Clampdown - The Clash

My Way - Conehead Buddha

Connection - Elastica

I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello

Rankin' Full Stop - The English Beat

Oh No - Gogol Bordello

Walking Contradiction - Green Day

What You Waiting For? - Gwen Stefani

Dance Wid' Me - Hepcat

Arms Aloft - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Holy Roller Novocaine - Kings of Leon

Cornman - Kinky

We Share Our Mothers' Health - The Knife

Ooh La - The Kooks

Off The Record - My Morning Jacket

Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers

Excuse Me Mr. - No Doubt

Sister Rosetta (Capture the Spirit) - Noisettes

Here It Goes Again - Ok Go

Karma Hunters - The Pinker Tones

Steady As She Goes - The Raconteurs

Whoo! Alright-Yeah...Uh Huh - The Rapture

Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hooplas Involving Circus Tricks_96 - Say Hi To Your Mom

I Turn My Camera On - Spoon

Hard To Explain - The Strokes

Oh! Gravity - Switchfoot

Thinking Of You - Test Your Reflex

Mama's Room - U T I O G

Alive With Pleasure - Viva Voce

Dope Nose - Weezer

My Doorbell - The White Stripes

Y Control (Brooklyn Fire Retouch) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Elvis Costello. A hard-working, passionate performer who doesn't seem to get tired as the show progresses. Does a lot of encores.

The recommended free download feature this column provided was something that made Salon stand apart from many other music sections on the internet. I hope you have the good marketing sense to bring back another incarnation of Audiofile sooner rather than later. Until then, I won't be around as frequently.

He's Puerto Rican. That scene where Omar finds out about Butchie's death was shot in Old San Juan's La Perla, a poor neighborhood complete with ocean views and a West Baltimore-like street drug market.

Arianna Huffington is an opportunistic hack. Her site is one of the worst examples of yellow journalism online. If one person is guilty of promoting hate mongering among liberals and progressives, it's her.

All those in Congress who were bought off be the Telcos should be publicly shamed. As long as it's legal to do this we don't have a true democracy.

Per Ms. Soderberg: "the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that the administration's written requests and directives indicated that such assistance "had been authorized by the president" and that the "activities had been determined to be lawful."

If this is the telecoms' argument, let a court of law decide if there was intent to commit a crime or not and if in fact a crime was commited under the circumstances. For all we know, they might win a favorable decision.

will turn out to be one of the biggest revelations of Mad Men. Some of his scenes from last year were a treat to watch.

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